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Report copyright infringementby Kahlil Gibran (Author)Kahlil Gibran's masterpiece, The Prophet, is one of the most beloved classics of our time--a collection of poetic essays that are philosophical, spiritual, and, above all, inspirational. Published in 1923, it has been translated into more than twenty languages. The Prophet contains powerful words of wisdom on such essential subjects as marriage, children, friendship, work, and pleasure--words that readers from around the world have found ...

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Report copyright infringementby Louise Greig (Author), Helen Musselwhite (Illustrator)This stunning gift book, with hand-cut paper art and lyrical text by an award-winning poet, leads you deep into the forest . . . and out again into the light. Listen: the forest is calling. Take a quiet walk through the woods, where shadows fall in the darkness, eyes peek out, and some animals sleep while others run and leap. Simple, poetic text and intricate papercut illustrations introduce children to a d...

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Report copyright infringementby John Zheng (Author), Michael Antonucci (Editor)Conversations with Michael S. Harper brings together fourteen interviews with one of the most innovative and influential voices in contemporary American poetry. A distinguished professor at Brown University and the author of fifteen poetry collections, Michael S. Harper (1938-2016) infused his work with the rhythms of jazz and blues, creating a lyrical space where Black history, culture, and spirituality converge.S...

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Report copyright infringementby David S. Wills (Editor)Beatdom 26 is the Allen Ginsberg special edition of our journal, released on the 100th anniversary of the Beat poet's birth. This issue includes essays, interviews, poems, memoirs, reviews, art, and photography related to Ginsberg. It is made by contributors from all around the world and examines parts of Ginsberg's life and work that have often been overlooked or misunderstood.ContentsEssays, Memoirs, and Interviews"Allen Ginsberg on the...

Shakespeare's Sonnets and Poems: A Very Short Introduction

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Report copyright infringementby Jonathan F. S. Post (Author)Not for nothing is William Shakespeare considered possibly the most famous writer in history; his works have had a lasting effect on culture, vocabularies, and art. His plays contain some of our most well-known lines (how often have you heard the phrase 'To be or not to be'?), yet whilst his poems may often feel less familiar than his plays they have also seeped into our cultural history (who has not heard of ''Shall I compare thee t...

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Report copyright infringementby Mary Oliver (Author)"Her compact poems are conversational and teasing, yet their taproots reach deeply into the aquifers of religion, philosophy, and literature . . . Oliver is funny and renegade as she protests cultural vapidity, greed, violence, and environmental decimation and ravishing in her close readings of nature." --Booklist "If you're one of the many, many fans of National Book Award- and Pulitzer-winning poet Mary Oliver, you'll very much welcome A T...

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Report copyright infringementby Fred Ragsdale (Author), Carlo Coppola (Foreword by)Poems in this collection brim with many themes, topics and moods: love, passion, sorrow; joy, empathy, wit; wonder, poignancy, ambiguity; and much more, authored by a unique literary talent demanding to be heard Number of Pages: 116 Dimensions: 0.28 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: March 23, 2026

Dragons and Chiggers: Paintings and Poems

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Report copyright infringementby Howard S. Carman (Author)Dragons and Chiggers brings together original watercolor paintings and poems that speak to one another across each spread. This collection explores nature, imagination, and the life journeys of a father (artist) and son (poet). Each spread creates a quiet dialogue between visual and verbal expression-an invitation to pause, look closely, and inhabit a moment of stillness. The paintings draw from natural forms, shifting light, and the em...

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Report copyright infringementby Jason M. Marak (Author)The Geometry of Departure, Jason M. Marak's debut collection of fourteen-line poems, artwork, and associated one-hundred-word stories, charts a lyric journey interspersed with narrative glimpses of hard-luck couple Jimmy and Delta. From New York City's traffic-clogged arteries and unforgiving Midwestern plains, to West Coast redwood groves and wind-battered coastlines, their journeys are juxtaposed with another recurring couple, Thicket a...

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Report copyright infringementby Dezarita Dashai (Author), Nay L. Attaway (Editor), Nay Cox (Cover Design by)10 years ago!"It's your wedding day; it's my wedding day.It's our wedding day!With this ring, I say I do.I give my heart and my soul to you!"-Three Piece-I walked down the aisle, dressed in white. Swaying to the beat of India Arie, pouring my feelings out of my heart for all to hear, "Let me tell you why I love him. Because he is the truth. I said he is so real, and I love the way that ...

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Report copyright infringementby Paul Bukovec (Author)End Pieces is Paul Bukovec's third book of poetry. Once again, he offers provocative sketches, quirky character studies, and intimate musings. It is a jewelry box with small treasures. The gems include vivid, dramatic episodes from the author's travels, a pair of heartfelt, down-to-earth-warts-and-all eulogies for his own parents, a couple of deathbed anecdotes both stark and darkly humorous, some ironic reflections on aging, some fanciful ...

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Report copyright infringementby Ralph La Charity (Author)This collection Beat Poetry is meant to be spoken aloud, performance is key. It is the final book in La Charity's trilogy, following Litanies Said Handedly and Blood Vertigo. It is richly illustrated with original collages by the author. According to the La Charity: "Breath neither sees nor does it consent to last. Print lasts as its singular job, soundlessly so. And the vain attempt to simultaneously straddle both the seen and the hear...

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Roaming the Labyrinth with Marie-Claire Bancquart

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Report copyright infringementby Christina Cook (Author), Marie-Claire Bancquart (Interviewee)A lyrical journey through language, myth & feminine power, Cook weaves her original poetry; her translations of poetry by celebrated French writer Marie-Claire Bancquart; and 15th century French Tarot into a speculative non-fiction narrative. The result relates an afternoon tour of Paris that spans millennia; an excursion that blurs mythic time and clock time into a lived experience that defies ca...

Kohelet's Cocktail: Beyond the Pursuit of Happiness

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Report copyright infringementby Jay Garfinkel (Author)Dive into the timeless wisdom of Ecclesiastes like never before in Jay Garfinkel's groundbreaking work, "Kohelet's Cocktail." This exquisite "illuminated" digital masterpiece marries the ancient with the avant-garde, offering a fresh, poetic voice to the biblical text that has resonated with humanity for millennia.What's Inside: - 83 Stunning Illustrations: Each piece is a visual symphony that invites you on a visual journey through Kohele...

Selected Poems of Robert Frost: Illustrated Edition

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Report copyright infringementby Robert Frost (Author)An unparalleled illustrated collection of the work of one of America's most beloved poets. Featuring the full contents of Robert Frost's first three volumes of poetry--A Boy's Will, North of Boston, and Mountain Interval--this superbly designed collection is a testament to the beauty of the master's writing. It gathers more than 100 of Frost's most renowned poems, including "Mending Wall," "The Road Not Taken," and "The Death of the Hired ...

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Report copyright infringementby Sally Brown (Illustrator), Renée Nicholson (Author)A deeply moving collection, Feverdream: Poems brings together lyric poetry, lived experience, and artistic collaboration to explore grief, illness, place, and the enduring human capacity for resilience.Many of the poems originated in narrative medicine sessions-spaces where close reading and reflective writing deepen understanding of illness and care. Nicholson spent two years writing with patients in a chemoth...

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Report copyright infringementby Ellen Dillon (Author)How complete + final the feeling as I lift its curve in the net is a work of hybrid lyric-essay by Ellen Dillon that moves between elegy, translation, and ecological witness, finding its gravitational centre in a pencil sketch by Barrie Cooke of two figures hauling a pike from a boat on Lough Gur. From that image, the book spirals outwards: into Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath, into the Irish-language poetry of Seán Ó'Ríordáin and the sustained...

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Report copyright infringementby Adric Ceneri (Author)If You Ever Felt Too Much is a deeply intimate and emotionally resonant poetry collection that explores the quiet intensity of being human in a world that often asks us to feel less.Through raw, lyrical, and unfiltered verses, Adric Ceneri invites readers into a journey shaped by longing, identity, heartbreak, and the silent battles we carry within. These poems do not simply describe emotion-they embody it, giving voice to thoughts and feel...

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Report copyright infringementby Anne Whitehouse (Author)The poems in Steady are narratives, persona poems and portraits, and lyrics. In writing them, I have tried to hold steady, so steadiness might connect them like a bridge. Steadiness is a quality most appreciated in old age when it becomes more elusive. My narrative poems about Frida Kahlo, Leonora Carrington, Lee Miller, Iris Origo, Ruth Asawa, and Imogen Cunningham are the result of years of engagement with their lives and their works. ...

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Report copyright infringementby Israa Hussein (Author)Some drawers are meant to be locked. This one never was.Inside these pages, Israa Hussein opens the drawer we all carry-the one filled with words we never said, heartbreaks we never explained, and moments that still echo long after they've passed.With raw honesty and lyrical precision, This Drawer Doesn't Lock explores the quiet places where memory and emotion live: the space between silence and confession, solitude and belonging, loss and...

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Report copyright infringementby Junguo Xu (Author)In A World Obsessed With Speed, These Poems Choose Stillness.Xu Junguo creates poetry like a painter of forgotten dreams.Inside his mythical "Goose Garden," rabbit angels wander through moonlight, little bodhisattvas grieve with childlike innocence, flowers whisper in solitude, and nature becomes a sacred language for healing the wounded human spirit.These poems carry the quiet emotional force of The Little Prince, the spiritual clarity of Zen...

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Report copyright infringementby Abbas Kiarostami (Author), Paul Cronin (Editor)Over the past two decades, Abbas Kiarostami - the Iranian film director of Where is the Friend's House?, Life and Nothing More, Through the Olive Trees, Close Up, A Taste of Cherry, The Wind Will Carry Us, Ten, Shirin, Certified Copy and Like Someone in Love - has appeared regularly at festivals and on campuses, where he has worked closely for several days with young filmmakers, shepherding them and their projects,...

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Report copyright infringementby Anders C. Shafer (Author)Poems, Written and Painted contains Anders Shafer's painted and written poems that reflect various stages of his life. Written between 1966 and 2023, these poems capture changing convictions of "what's cool." 25 poems are accompanied by 25 paintings."For me, writing poetry seems very similar to making visual art. I think of my paintings as painted poems. In this book, I put in a selection of paintings to illustrate this point. They seem...

Six Feet Short of the Moon: Poems by Matthew Wong

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Report copyright infringementby Matthew Wong (Author), John Wall Barger (Text by (Art/Photo Books)), John Yau (Text by (Art/Photo Books))Poems and photographs from a painter whose gestural articulations and lush, textured landscapes draw comparisons to Klimt, Van Gogh and SoutineThis book comprises never before published or exhibited poetry and photography by the Canadian artist Matthew Wong (1984-2019), whose too-brief life yielded astonishing paintings in addition to work featured here. An ...

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Report copyright infringementby Tarriona Ball (Author)From Grammy award-winning spoken word artist and poet Tarriona 'Tank' Ball comes a powerful second collection of poetry about falling out of love and into a renewed sense of self. After getting "vulnerable AF" on her 2021 book tour, Tank realized she was truly ready to move on from her first love. In The Thing About Falling, she writes about that experience as well as what followed--a period of shallow comfort, followed by a much deeper tr...

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by Kimberly Povloski (Author), Erica Dawson (Selected by), Jerrod Schwarz (Editor)"hell of birds is ferocious in its energy and acrobatics. With arresting images and unexpected enjambment, the poems twist and turn, often coming to a halt so surprising, you're left reeling in the white space, out of breath. Kimberly writes, "One day the world will sing through your blood." After reading this collection, you'll feel the earth in your bones."-Erica Dawson, author of When Rap Spoke Straight to Go...

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by Helli Fang (Author), Jerrod Schwarz (Editor), Chen Chen (Selected by)"Train-sounds, dew-sounds, sounds from the hair, prayerful sounds and python sounds, fish market then mooncake sounds, sounds of falling into water, sounds of rising from fire-these are the sounds of Village of Knives, a collection that speaks through how much, how closely and imaginatively it listens. The poems here listen to immigrant life and dream, to gendered expectation and subversion, to desire, to the body's surgi...

The Divine Comedy: Inferno; Purgatorio; Paradiso (in One Volume); Introduction by Eugenio Montale - Hardcover

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by Dante Alighieri (Author), Allen Mandelbaum (Translator), Eugenio Montale (Introduction by)This Everyman's Library edition-containing in one volume all three cantos, Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso-includes an introduction by Nobel Prize--winning poet Eugenio Montale, a chronology, notes, and a bibliography. Also included are forty-two drawings selected from Botticelli's marvelous late-fifteenth-century series of illustrations.Translated in this edition by Allen Mandelbaum, The Divine Com...

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Report copyright infringementby Gyo Fujikawa (Illustrator)William Blake, Kate Greenaway, Emily Dickinson: the writers in this charming anthology of 200 poems--first published in 1969--are among literature's most beloved. And Gyo Fujikawa's appealing illustrations depict children of all races sweetly interacting, as well as an engagingly rendered menagerie of animals and the natural world in all its wonderment. Among the verses that children will love are Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's "Christma...

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by Henrik Ibsen (Author), Christopher Fry (Author), Johann Fillinger (Author)This translation is based upon the Norwegian text in the Centenary Edition of Ibsen's collected works. It provides a close account of the quality of Ibsen's play by reproducing as nearly as possible not only the meaning in the literal sense but the verse forms that constitute so much of the substance and dramatic structure of the original. It makes an important contribution to those studying Peer Gynt in English, as ...

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Report copyright infringementby Philip Smith (Editor)Here are some of the most-loved poems in the English language, chosen not merely for their popularity, but for their literary quality as well. Dating from the Middle Ages to the 20th century, these splendid poems remain evergreen in their capacity to engage our minds and refresh our spirits. Among them are Marlowe: "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love"; Shakespeare: "Sonnet XVIII" ("Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?"); Donne: "Holy So...